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• Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

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  Ocean, Savages, Earth

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.125, University of Chicago Press

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• There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

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  Evil, Evil Women, Bad Woman

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• Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

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  Causes, Argument

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

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• No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

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  Freedom, Law, People

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• The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

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  Life, Wise, Power

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• It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

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  Wise, Heart, Thinking

  Euripides, G. S. Kirk (1979). “Bacchae of Euripides”, p.60, CUP Archive

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• Common sense is the best prophet.

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  Common Sense, Common, Prophet

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• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

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  Strength, Don't Give Up, Literature

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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• When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

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  Love, Men, Honor

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

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  Character, Men, Good Man

  "Temenidae". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

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• The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

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  Success, Men, Excellence

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.228, University of Chicago Press

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• We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

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  Wisdom, Hurt, Intelligence

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• When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

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  Hurt, Character, Men

  Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

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• Leave no stone unturned.

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  Wisdom, Book, Beer

  Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (2016). “The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides”, p.236, Modern Library

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• Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

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  Mistake, Men, True Power

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• The greatest pleasure of life is love.

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  Love, Life, Pleasure

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• Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

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  Heaven, Moderation

  "Medea". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.

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• A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

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  Marriage, Winning, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.149, University of Chicago Press

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• What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

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  Grief, Loss, Land

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• Money is the wise man's religion.

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  Wise, Money, Men

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Simple

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

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  Wise, Ignorant, Seems

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• Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

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  Running, Grief, Giving

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

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  Money, Food, Men

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